Aladdin at one of the pretentious quote-spouting parties, in four frames.
Jasmine is so breaking up with you.
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Iago is so good at helping.
And speaking of anachronisms, “philistinism” wasn’t really a word or a thing in the way he’s using it here, not until the 17th or 18th century, and it’s a pretty white, Anglo-centric turn of phrase. Not to be mistaken for the Philistine people (or the Pleshets as they were known), philistines in philosophical terms are anti-intellectuals who place no value in “art, beauty, spirituality, or intellect.” (x) While I can’t find much in the way of how the phrase originated in this way, I’m not going to rule out white colonialist views of ancient cultures, but anybody better versed on this that’d like to give me a shout to set the record straight is most welcome.
I feel the need to give Iago a pass on the more modern references because this is still probably the least blatant of the anachronisms he can dish out, considering his one ambition in life is to have a vibrating recliner.
“Well there I go. I’ve gone and gotten carried away and alienated everyone again.”
..We’re an unusual family.
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Now I want them to form a super hero team and travel the multiverses.
This exchange tickles me a little because I think that while Jasmine has a legitimate grievance, she’s hanging on the wrong thing, here, and I think Iago kind of helps her to see that, because she finally comes down on a really solid reason why she should still be out here.
Seriously, all the expressions in this scene.
[internal screaming]
This entire scene. I’m disturbed at watching not only the obvious lie that nobody in the house was screaming, but also these grownups knowingly using their power over this girl, given to them by her aunt, to take her into a dangerous situation. And this is a running commentary throughout this movie that you wouldn’t expect to see in the one from the 30s: Sometimes, you shouldn’t do what grownups tell you.
This entire scene. Once again, for a kid’s movie, this is some really tense stuff. I mentioned earlier that the sounds these gurneys make are already creepily grating, so we get this very long shot switching between the door and the approaching sounds of a gurney, and Dorothy watching, tense.
All ending with this devil woman asking her sweetly if she’d like to go for a ride.
I’d say this movie is scarier than the second Silent Hill movie, which isn’t saying much, but remember this wasn’t marketed as a horror movie. If it had been marketed at all, that is.
JASMINE. YOU ABSOLUTE BADASS.
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